5G Transport Slicing

Highlights

• Accurate visibility, analytics and automated control of IP + Optical + Microwave layers
• Manage 5G slicing across the entire network, not just specific areas
• Automate the creation/modification /deletion of Virtual Networks (VN)
• Sophisticated multi-layer PCE ensures network/slice constraints can be defined and fully met.

Benefits

Automate your ability to:
• Assure VNs are not oversubscribed.
• Assure users are exposed ONLY to their VN and no other
• Assure VN capacity, latency, SLAs from the tunnel level all the way to the fiber path in the ground
• Assure VN uptime

Knowing How to Slice a 5G Transport Network

5G carriers have deployed miles and miles of fiber optic links and deployed backbone networks across entire countries. They will also need to deploy thousands of 5G nodes and configure countless “slices” of the network to support the needs of different services with unique requirements for bandwidth, latency and resiliency. For example:

Service Type	Service Delivery Requirements
Video	Average BW; low latency
Gaming	High BW; extremely low latency
Storage	Very high BW; latency is irrelevant
IoT	Low BW; low latency; low resiliency
Business	High BW; high resiliency; high BW

In order to divide the physical network into 5G slices, each with its own connectivity, BW, latency, resiliency, and connectivity paths to support its services, CSPs need to understand with certainty all the network resources they have, all the connections between them, and where all the service traffic goes.

Think of a 5G network slice as a self-contained virtual network with provisioned connectivity that uses pre-defined service paths between multiple points in the slice. Some slices are managed internally by service providers for different types of services. Some slices are open and accessible to other vendors or customers who will configure and manage their own services within the slice.

One thing is certain. Network slicing cannot be done manually or without software defined networking (SDN). For example, a great deal of automation is required for 5G slicing to be able to bind VRFs to specific tunnels and to stitch them across domain boundaries.

Use Sedona NetFusion to Automate 5G Transport Slicing

The accurate and complete network inventory you get from Sedona NetFusion Network Intelligence and Automation Platform is pre-requisite for service automation – especially sensitive services such as Enterprise VPN. Sedona fits into any SDN environment to help you automate 5G:

Slice Management
Faster Root Cause Analysis
Service Management
Resiliency Assurance
Vulnerability Analysis